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[Cathy <goosecreekfarm AT gmail.com>]

Among the breeds we tried, I liked the Barred Rock.  Calm birds, big enough
to eat, nice large eggs.  Not too broody, though.  Our first chicks were BR
sex links.

Cathy

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:48 PM, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I've never had a partridge rock that wasn't on the wild side..but they
> are so pretty!
>
> Bev
>
> Robert Walton wrote:
> >>  I can't think of a variety that
> >> I did not like or have some affinity for.
> >
> > I still have 2 Brown Leghorn hens. They are good layers, eat less food
> > per egg, are scrapie, the roosters are about the prettiest and will
> > fight off guineas, and one of the two I have goes broody and is a good
> > mother once a year. But when you end up butchering them, you get next
> > to nothing. The roosters pass that slight of body trait on to their
> > sons and daughters off other breeds of hen.
> >
> > That's the only thing I don't like about them.
> >
> > Rob - Va
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